Question

A. Write the desirable characters a farmer looks for in his sugarcane crop.
B. How did plant breeding techniques help north Indian farmers to develop cane with desired characters?

Answer 1

(A)The desirable characters a farmer looks for in his sugarcane crop are:

#high yeild

#Thick stems

#disease resistance

#high sugar

#ability to grow everywhere

(B) Plant breeding techniques help north Indian farmers to develop cane with desired characters as:

# The north indian variety was saccharum barberi.

•It had poor yeild and sugar content

# The south indian variety was saccharum officinarum

• It had high yeild and sugar content but couldn't grow in northern areas

# the two species were vreed to produce crops with

•high sugar content

•high yield

•thick stems

•ability to grow in northern areas